Presents a catalog of simple solutions to commonly occurring design problems. These 23 patterns allow designers to create more reusable designs without having to rediscover the design solutions themselves. The authors begin by describing what patterns are, and how they can help you design object-oriented software.

Whether you're a new developer seeking a sound introduction to the practice of software development or a veteran exploring strategic new approaches to problem solving, you'll find a wealth of practical suggestions and methods for strengthening your skills.

This text provides an introduction to the Perl programming language and its culture. This third edition has been expanded to cover Version 5.6 of Perl. New topics include threading, the compiler, and Unicode.

Corporate and commercial software-development teams all want solutions for one important problem how to get their high-pressure development schedules under control. In RAPID DEVELOPMENT, author Steve McConnell addresses that concern head-on with overall strategies, specific best practices, and valuable tips that help shrink and control development schedules and keep projects moving. Inside, you ..

Demonstrates how software practitioners can realize the benefits of refactoring. This book shows you where opportunities for refactoring typically can be found, and how to go about reworking a bad design into a good one. It provides a catalog of more than seventy proven refactorings with helpful pointers that teach you when to apply them.

Gets students thinking about efficient object-oriented software design using UML 2.0. The book describes the major UML 2.0 diagram types, what they are intended to do, and the basic notation involved in creating and deciphering them, with a concise format.

Based on the ANSI/ISO C++ standard, this book provides comprehensive coverage of all C++ language features and standard library components. Presented in a hardcover format, it also includes appendices on locales and standard library exception safety.

This volume contains the essays, originally published online, that led to Netscape's decision to release their browser as open source, and helped Linux to rock the world of commercial software.

Describes how to improve your software development by integrating accountability, transparency and responsibility into your daily development process. This book helps you how to: involve the whole team; increase technical collaboration through pair programming and continuous integration; reduce defects through developer testing; and more.

Equip yourself with SOFTWARE PROJECT SURVIVAL GUIDE. It's for everyone with a stake in the outcome of a development project--and especially for those without formal software project management training. That includes top managers, executives, clients, investors, end-user representatives, project managers, and technical leads. Here you'll find guidance from the acclaimed author of the classics ...

Alan Cooper calls for a Software Revolution - his best-selling book now in trade paperback with new foreword and afterword.

Describes the reasons why companies spawn Death Marches and provides you with guidance to identify and survive death march projects. This work covers the project lifecycle, addressing every key issue participants face: politics, people, process, project management, and tools.

Offers an account for the changes to the language up to Perl 5.10. This book includes exercises and solutions for practice. It covers topics including: Perl variable types; Subroutines; File operations; Regular expressions; Text processing; Strings and sorting; Process management; and, Using third party modules.

The author examines issues such as the rightness of web-based applications, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, the Open Source Movement, Internet startups and more. He also tells important stories about the kinds of people behind technical innovations, revealing their character and their craft.

Provides information on developing enterprise applications, reference to the patterns, usage and implementation, and code examples in Java or C#. This book, illustrated with UML diagrams to further explain the concepts, covers the division of an enterprise application into layers, approaches to organizing business logic, and more.

Use cases provide a beneficial means of project planning because they clearly show how people will ultimately use the system being designed. This guide provides software developers with a nuts-and-bolts tutorial for writing use cases. It covers introductory, intermediate, and advanced concepts, and is suitable for all knowledge levels.

Ruby 1.9 is the latest version of Ruby. It has many compelling features, including multinationalization support, new block scoping, and better performance. At the same time, the current Ruby 1.8 is still being maintained and is widely used.

Including material on e-commerce, Java and UML, this book contains a chapter on web engineering which addresses subjects such as formulating, analysing and testing web-based applications. It is suitable for undergraduates studying software and electrical engineering.

Explains how to incorporate effective domain modeling into the software development process. This book offers readers a systematic approach to domain-driven design, presenting a set of design best practices, experience-based techniques, and fundamental principles that facilitate the development of software projects facing complex domains.

Part tutorial and part reference, this book helps you develop new JavaScript skills by building on your basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and the Web in general. It includes scripting Flash with JavaScript, HTTP and Ajax, DOM, SVG, XML, and web services and also serves as a detailed reference for the more experienced web developers.